Lanny Burrill’s Palm Sunday homily
It is tempting to think of the Upper Room scene in the Gospels’ passion narratives as a dreamy, candle-lit fellowship meal, rather than, as Ched Myers has said, “the conflict-ridden final hours of a fugitive community in hiding.”
Likewise it’s easy to interpret Jesus’ experience in Gethsemane as calm, resolute submission to a pre-ordained plan rather than as the deep, sweaty struggle [...]